According to the official website of the US Senate, Bhattacharya won the vote by 53-47 during the first session of the roll call vote in the 119th Congress.
Jay Bhattacharya, a physician and a Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University, is likely to be chosen by President-elect Donald Trump as the next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States, according to a report by The Washington Post.